Ohhh Jerry. You're already screwed cap and then you go and do this. Please stay who you are forever.

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Cowboys K Dan Bailey's six-year extension is worth $22.5 million, with $7.5 million guaranteed.
Only in Jerry's World. More cap strapped than any team in football, the Cowboys will likely have to convert salaries into prorated "signing" bonuses elsewhere on the roster to fit Bailey's head-scratching new deal into their already in-the-red finances. Bailey gets a $4.5 million signing bonus and $3.4 million per year in new money. We don't have any problem with Bailey -- he's 26 and one of the top placekickers in the game -- but the Cowboys' contractual dealings are annually the most preposterous in football. Maybe they'll bulk up Bailey and get him to double at defensive tackle. Dallas is currently nearly $22 million over the cap.
Source: Ian Rapoport on Twitter

Ohhh Jerry. You're already screwed cap and then you go and do this. Please stay who you are forever.

I don't know why people pay kickers. The kicking game has become so easy. 11 kickers (12 if you round up Gould) made over 90% of their field goals. 17 of the top 20 kickers in all-time percentage are active kickers. Just sign a couple of undrafted free agent guys, let them compete, and when his contract runs out, if you can't sign him for super cheap, start the process over again.

Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I don't know why people pay kickers. The kicking game has become so easy. 11 kickers (12 if you round up Gould) made over 90% of their field goals. 17 of the top 20 kickers in all-time percentage are active kickers. Just sign a couple of undrafted free agent guys, let them compete, and when his contract runs out, if you can't sign him for super cheap, start the process over again.

I'd only pay for guys who make clutch kicks. Going from Cundiff to Tucker is a huge difference. I agree with not wasting good draft picks but it is worth it to keep good kickers around.

Can a team operate over the cap (sign FAs to let's say $130 or $140 mil) during free agency? If they know their June 1st cuts will get them under?

I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no. Every team has to be under the NFL salary cap once the new league year starts. I dont think that any team has ever been over when the new league year has started.

Pro football is the most popular sport in America for at least the 30th straight year.

That's according to a survey taken this month by the Harris Poll, which has been asking adult fans, ages 18 and over, about their favorite sport since 1985.

In 2014, 35 percent of fans call the NFL their favorite sport, followed by Major League Baseball (14 percent), college football (11 percent), auto racing (7 percent), the NBA (6 percent), the NHL (5 percent) and college basketball (3 percent).

In 1985, the first year the poll was taken, the NFL beat MLB by just one percentage point (24 to 23 percent), but since then interest in baseball has fallen while the NFL has experienced a huge rise in popularity.

Nine percent fewer fans call baseball their favorite sport over the 30-year span, the biggest drop of any sport. The polling numbers suggest that the sport hasn't been able to recover from a popularity standpoint from 1994, when a strike forced the cancellation of the World Series.